- Object ID
Miller, Daegan, author.
- Title
This radical land a natural history of American dissent / Daegan Miller.
- Other Title
Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way - Near Council Bluffs, Iowa (reproduction)
- Description
318 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 24 cm
- Category
Books and Serials
- Subject
Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862.
Melrose, Andrew,--1836-1901--Illustrations.
Nature--Effect of human beings on--United States.
Environmentalism--United States.
- Note
Includes collection reproduction from Autry Museum of the American West Collection (page 142: 92.147.1)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-312) and index.
When the bough breaks -- Act one: At the boundary with Henry David Thoreau -- Act two: The geography of grace : home in the great northern wilderness -- Intermission -- Act three: Revelator’s progress : sun pictures of the thousand-mile tree -- Act four: Possession in the land of Sequoyah, General Sherman, and Karl Marx -- Enduring obligations.
”Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers, settlers, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom, justice, and progress in the very landscapes around them, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll everything in its path. Here we meet Thoreau, the expert surveyor, drawing anticapitalist property maps. We visit a black antislavery community in the Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York. We discover how seemingly commercial photographs of the transcontinental railroad secretly sent subversive messages, and how a band of utopian anarchists among California’s sequoias imagined a greener, freer future. At every turn, everyday radicals looked to landscape for the language of their dissent -- drawing crucial early links between the environment and social justice, links we’re still struggling to strengthen today” -- Publisher’s description.
- Call Number
GE 150 .M55 2018